| Bronx Tax
Preparer Was Sued by US For 90% Refund
Rate Then Indicted Now Gets 4 Years
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 14 – ATAX, a tax
preparer at 5536 Broadway in
Marble Hill, The Bronx, and
Rafael Alvarez have been sued
by the government.
On April
14, U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Jed S. Rakoff held
a proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
The US
says 90% of ATAX' customers
claim refunds, using head of
household fraud and other
tricks it ascribes to Alvarez.
Jump cut to May
29, 2025, criminal case:
"RAFAEL ALVAREZ, a/k/a “the
Magician,” was sentenced today
by U.S. District Judge J. Paul
Oetken to four years in prison
in connection with his
orchestration of a
decade-long, $145 million tax
fraud scheme."
The civil case
was United States of America
v. Alvarez et al., 21-cv-1930
(Rakoff)
The criminal case
is USA v. Alvarez, 1:24-cr-221
(Oetken)
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